dwell

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

intransitive v. To live as a resident; reside.

intransitive v. To exist in a given place or state: dwell in joy.

intransitive v. To fasten one's attention: kept dwelling on what went wrong. See Synonyms at brood.

intransitive v. To speak or write at length; expatiate: dwelt on the need to trim the budget.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.

n. A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.

n. A planned delay in a timed control program.

n. In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To delay; to linger.

intransitive v. To abide; to remain; to continue.

intransitive v. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.

transitive v. To inhabit.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To linger; delay; continue; stay; remain.

To abide as a permanent resident; reside; have abode or habitation permanently or for some time.

To live; be; exist: without reference to place.

To continue on; occupy a long time with; speak or write about at great length or with great fullness: as, to dwell on a note in music; to dwell upon a subject.

Synonyms Abide, Sojourn, Continue, etc. See abide.

To inhabit.

To place as an inhabitant; plant.

n. In printing, the brief continuation of pressure in the taking of an impression on a hand-press or an Adams press, supposed to set or fasten the ink more firmly in the paper.

n. An automatic pause in the action of one part of a machine to enable another part to complete its work; specifically, in a sheet-metal drawing-press, a pause in the motion of one die to enable another to continue its work, or a pause in the motion of the two dies to enhance the effect of their combined pressure.

I've read and enjoyed all thirteen of Carroll's novels, and this one is going right on the shelf with the others, and will occupy the same oft-visited part of my mental landscape wherein dwell his other magical books.

The place in which they do dwell is one in which the working poor, clothed in the stigmatizing uniforms of their menial trades, interrogated, tested, monitored, and policed, trade their civil rights-at the very least, their right to privacy and to free speech-for a not quite subsistence wage.